I have a set of applications that use a common assembly library.
AppA, AppB and AppC all use LibA and LibB
These will run on about 25 computers.
AppA and LibA need to read registry to determine database connect string to

I have a "little" problem with authentication from user control (written in
.NET c#) that
is displayed in HTML page using Internet Explorer. Its possible using
<object classid=....> tag.

We have our intranet website running on IIS 6.0 using SSL. On our application
side, we have some code that goes to the
\\Servername\DirectoryName\myFile.pdf and grabs the file for the user. Now
the problem is with SSL. Everytime some user click on the link, they get

I'm not able to find any API to retrieve at runtime the hash of an assembly.
1/ is there any existing API (I might not have looked in the correct
namespaces/classes) ?
2/ if not, why is'nt there any ? any security implication ? is it planned to

I would like to know how i can easily use role based authentication to
enable or disable certain controls (e.g. buttons) in a windows .NET
application.
Anyone suggestions?

I have a web app that runs on windows 2003 server and IIS 6.0.  This app runs
in a seperate application pool using a separate user called "APP_USER" (not
Network Services).  Everything works OK except the mail sending part.  Not
sure where the "APP_USER" should have access to to ...

sure!  
You have to construct a WindowsPrincipal object for that user.
What kind of application are we talking about?
In Console/WinForms apps you get the current logged on user with

I have a program written in MEC++ which creates a 2nd AppDomain that has it's own application base
and app.config file.  This 2nd application base is NOT a subdirectory of the default domain's
application base but it is on the same local disk.  The code that is run in this 2nd ...

As part of one our intranet applications, I have a vb.net winform control
that is being hosted in a plain htm for now. I have signed the winform
control assembly with a VeriSign Code Signing Digital ID. When the page is
accessed from the same machine (machine A) where the control ...

I'm wondering if somebody can help me figure out how to decrypt data. I seem
to be able to encrypt data but have not been able to decrypt the very data
that I've encrypted.  I know it's because I'm just not understanding the
whole process but I'm obviously just not getting it. ...

We are about to launch our eSite- Customers will be entering their credit
card info however transactions take place off line.  Verisign wants close to
$1000 for a 128 cert, others such as DigiCert and Thawte have $99 specials.  
Do you have any experience pro or con with either of ...

I work in a law firm and all of the applications built by my team are
used solely internally.  I have read help on CAS and caspol.exe, but I
am unable to answer my own question.
Can I assign a trust level to all assemblies signed with a given

I'm currently seeking an ecommerce application that I can modify, focusing
on those written in DotNet. I'm evaluating an application from one company
that has a rather odd design philosophy (IMO) with respect to SSL:
basically, once they turn it on, they leave it on.

I  run a web application that allows users to create folders and upload
files to the server.
Since a while it does not work. I guess it is some kind of securityproblem.
Using a host I do not have full access to setting security. Can anyone help

I am working on a simple yet large web application that renders static HTML
files per user request.  I wrote an ASPX front end that accepts a userid and
password combination. It acts as a gatekeeper to the application.  The user
cannot get to the index HTML document from the ...